{"id":61920,"date":"2021-11-05T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61920"},"modified":"2021-11-05T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:29:10","slug":"what-it-takes-to-be-a-tiger-how-save-the-kids-is-helping-youth-in-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61920","title":{"rendered":"What It Takes To Be A Tiger: How Save the Kids is helping youth in the community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>STORY BY LAURYN BECKER<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photos Courtesy Ryan Jensen<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One quote that comes to mind when thinking of Fort Hays Student, Ryan Jensen is \u201cyou get out what you put in.\u201d Not only has he founded and co-founded several organizations on campus, but he is also striving to make a difference in others&#8217; lives in the community.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am the founder of the Green Initiative Club, Co-Founder of Save the Kids, President of the Pre-Med club, Tiger Team member, and a member of SAE,\u201d Jensen said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A major club that has taken off at Fort Hays has been Save The Kids. Found on <a href=\"https:\/\/tigerlink.fhsu.edu\/organization\/savethekids\">TigerLink, Save The Kids<\/a> is an \u201con-campus organization for those interested in helping the kids in need.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jensen and a few others helped to start the organization as a way to impact the community, specifically the kids in the community.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI remember that day like it was yesterday, my friend Chris Crawford and I were sitting in Breathe coffee house around this time of year in 2020. We were discussing ways we could impact our community positively and that is when Chris had the idea of starting the club and asked me if I would like to help, a question that I eagerly agreed to,\u201d he said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"988\" data-attachment-id=\"61918\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=61918\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-05-at-9.50.09-AM.png?fit=1044%2C1306&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1044,1306\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With COVID pausing them in when they wanted to start, it took a little while to build a following and gain members, but now they are completely taking off and working hard with other students and organizations to reach out to the kids in the community.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt took a while for the club to lift off, mostly due to COVID-19, however, once the fall semester of \u201821 started we got straight to work,\u201d Jensen said.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through doing different events, Jensen stated that Save the Kids is making a deeper impact throughout campus and community-wide.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe impact on Save the Kids is huge in the Hays community. I recently stopped by Big Brothers Big Sisters, a non-profit that we work hand in hand with, and I was told about how much the schoolbags and Halloween buckets we packed meant to the underserved families in our community,\u201d Jensen said. \u201cThis impact is also campus-wide. Our first meeting we only had around 14 members, but as the year progressed I saw more and more people coming and giving back. A little goes a long way and that is apparent with our group.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having many leadership roles in so many different organizations, it can be hard to balance his time. Jensen states that while he is not the best at it, he utilizes different resources to help him.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI personally find myself not balancing my time well most of the time. One piece of advice that really helped me was setting up a Google calendar and utilizing labeled alarms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Jensen, his passion in life is simple: to help others because, in return, it helps himself.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo help those in need and make a friend out of it,\u201d Jensen stated.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To Jensen, being a Tiger is taking pride in the education we receive at Fort Hays and taking pride in being a Tiger as a whole.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEducation is a privilege I\u2019m lucky enough to have. As a Tiger I receive an education that\u2019s quality on the foundation of support from a community that\u2019s become my closest friends and family,\u201d Jensen said. \u201cBeing a tiger is something I am proud to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;For more What It Takes To Be A Tiger, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?s=what+it+takes+to+be+a+tiger\">tigermedianet.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STORY BY LAURYN BECKER Photos Courtesy Ryan Jensen One quote that comes to mind when thinking of Fort Hays Student, Ryan Jensen is \u201cyou get&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":61919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,3398,11],"tags":[106,14200,14233,14231,103,290,14256],"class_list":["post-61920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-news","category-campus-news","category-news","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-lauryn-becker","tag-ryan-jensen","tag-save-the-kids","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tmn","tag-what-it-takes-to-be-a-tiger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-05-at-9.50.03-AM-e1636126112116.png?fit=1072%2C776&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61922,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61920\/revisions\/61922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}